Edward Jenner - Wikipedia
Edward Jenner (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. …
History of Smallpox - CDC
2024年10月23日 · Following the eradication of smallpox, scientists and public health officials determined there was still a need to perform research using the variola virus. They agreed to …
Smallpox | Definition, History, Vaccine, & Facts | Britannica
2024年11月18日 · Smallpox is an infectious disease that begins with fever and headache and proceeds to an eruption of the skin that leaves pockmarks. For centuries smallpox was one of …
History of smallpox vaccination - World Health Organization …
The ancient practice of variolation (named for smallpox, also known as variola or ‘la variole’) was widely used in Asia and some parts of Africa. This consisted of transferring to healthy people …
Smallpox and the story of vaccination | Science Museum
2019年4月25日 · Smallpox and vaccination are intimately connected. Edward Jenner developed the first vaccine to prevent smallpox infections, and this success led to the global eradication …
Was smallpox a widespread mild disease? | Science - AAAS
2020年7月24日 · Smallpox—caused by variola virus (VARV), a poxvirus—was one of the most virulent diseases known to humans, killing up to 30% of infected individuals and 300 million to …
Smallpox - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年6月20日 · Smallpox is an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus, a member of the orthopoxvirus family. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity …
Frontiers | Edward Jenner and the Small Pox Vaccine
2011年6月13日 · Edward Jenner, who discovered that it is possible to vaccinate against Small Pox using material from Cow Pox, is rightly the man who started the science of immunology. …
Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination
In science credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs. — Francis Galton. For many centuries, smallpox devastated mankind. In modern times …
Smallpox - PMC
Future nations will know by history only that the loathsome smallpox has existed and by you has been extirpated. Thomas Jefferson, writing to Edward Jenner in 1806 [1]. Before knowledge …